PLETHORA

overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment

(noun) extreme excess; “an embarrassment of riches”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)

(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.

(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.

Synonyms

• (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew

Anagrams

• Althorpe, traphole, tropheal

Source: Wiktionary

Pleth"o*ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Pleonasm.]

1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition